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Table 1 Frequency of wrong site surgery incidents

From: Can the surgical checklist reduce the risk of wrong site surgery in orthopaedics? - can the checklist help? Supporting evidence from analysis of a national patient incident reporting system

Category of wrong site surgery

Near-misses, n (% of total)

Near-misses prevented by the checklist, n (% of individual category of wrong site surgery)

Actual harm, n (%)

Actual harm prevented by the checklist, n (% of individual category of wrong site surgery)

wrong patient

1 (0.8)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

wrong side block

7 (5.8)

7 (100.0)

5 (41.7)

5 (100.0)

wrong side marked on consent form

50 (41.3)

4 (8.0)

2 (16.7)

0 (0.0)

wrong side marked on patient

9 (7.4))

4 (44.4)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

wrong side prosthesis

2 (1.7)

2 (100.0)

3 (25.0)

3 (100.0)

wrong side surgery

1 (0.8)

1 (100.0)

2 (16.7)

2 (100.0)

wrong side marked on theatre list

51 (42.1)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

Total

121 (100.0)

18 (14.9)

12 (100.0)

10 (100.0)